pawing

Example Sentences

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Pawing through the racks of Deep Cover, a vintage shop in lower Manhattan, it isn’t too hard to come across a Grant Hill-era Fila T-shirt.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Pawing pallidly at their instruments, muttering doggerel into their collars, they sound like nothing so much as that first, staggeringly inept band you formed for a giggle with your schoolmates.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2010

Pawing through the paperwork is not what documentaries do best.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pawing the ground is a horse’s way of begging.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Sepultured sits he, Sovereign descended, Battle sword by him, Buckler on arm; Chafes his good charger Champing impatient, Pawing with gold-hoof The gate of the grave.

From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon